On Tuesday night, after allowing three straight singles, Hinch pulled Giles. As Hinch approached the mound, Giles clearly muttered a R-rated phrase before heading to the dugout.

Hinch, classy as always, didn’t say much about Giles’ outburst. Before Wednesday, he kept the focus on the baseball.

“We need to get his pitching right," Hinch said. "He's had an up-and-down season. He's had signs of things that are good. He's had some bad games, he's had some meltdowns, but we need to get him right. He's not right. We've got to get him right mentally and physically to make sure he's a good contributor to the pen.”

The move is a good one.

Giles has a 4.99 ERA this season and that’s reason enough for the demotion. The Astros are contenders this year. They need top-notch pitching and Giles wasn’t cutting it.

The attitude on top of that is enough to send him packing for the time being.

What will be interesting now will be seeing how he responds to the assignment and if he can make his way back.

Giles has the kind of arm teams want in their arsenal. But throwing 100 mph isn’t worth the trouble of someone who loses control of his temper so easily.

Jenny Dial Creech, a native of San Antonio and a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, started at the Houston Chronicle in 2005 as a high school sports reporter. She has since covered an array of beats and served as an assistant sports editor and senior editor of Texas Sports Nation. Creech is the president of the Association for Women in Sports Media and was awarded the 2015 APSE Diversity Fellowship. In addition to her role at the Houston Chronicle, Creech also works with several high school and college journalists at Columbia University journalism conferences and workshops.